Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2000 17:55:18 -0700 (PDT) From: Jesse <j@lumiere.net> To: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: setting default boot partition Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010281754030.1282-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <14843.14493.986631.472285@guru.mired.org>
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> Jesse writes:
> > Hi,
> > Anyone know how I can change my default boot partion to ad0e?
>
> Yes - go through the entire boot sequence and change all the places
> where it assumes that the boot partition is a to be e.
What do you mean by go through ahd change it?
I can't find anywhere I can specify what the boot partition should be.
> Since you don't have an an a partition, it's probably easier to use
> disklabel to add an a partition that's a copy of the e partition, and
> then use the (new) a partition. That's what I wound up doing, anyway.
I ended up simply relabeling e as a and it worked, but I'd like to know
for future reference when I *do* have an a partition.
Thanks,
---
Jesse <j@lumiere.net>
"One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws."
-- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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